{"id":189,"date":"2017-11-15T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=189"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:03:43","slug":"thomas-f-defrantz","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/thomas-f-defrantz\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas F. DeFrantz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas F. DeFrantz<\/strong> is Professor and Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University, and Director of SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture, Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. Books: <em>Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance<\/em> (Wisconsin, 2002),\u00a0<em>Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey&#8217;s Embodiment of African American Culture<\/em> (Oxford, 2004), <em>Black Performance Theory<\/em> (co-edited with Anita Gonzalez, Duke, 2014), <em>Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion<\/em> (co-edited with Philipa Rothfield, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor and Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University, and Director of SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture, Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. Books: Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (Wisconsin, 2002), Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey&#8217;s Embodiment of African American Culture (Oxford, 2004), Black Performance Theory (co-edited with Anita Gonzalez, Duke, 2014), Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion (co-edited with Philipa Rothfield, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}